[TBR] Viva La Roast! (Perpetual Thread V)

In the spirit of our soon to be #5 ranking, and due to the extreme length of the previous perpetual thread, I'm starting a new TBR perpetual thread, in the hopes that those folks that haven't taken a look lately will come back and see what they are missing!

Originally posted by Hobbes:Here's something I never thought I'd see, especially one day after he dropped over 1,000,000. Sheep is in somebody's crosshairs. That really shows how much Coaster has been cranking out lately.

Not to seem imperious, but aren't you jumping the gun a bit early?

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2/20/2013 10:59:00 PM (BlisteringSheep [Team Beef Roast])

I'm not going without a fight!

Seriously though, Coaster has been doing a great job, along with several others. We had 8 people with over 10,000 today, and 4 of those had over 20,000! We've got 46 in the Million-Ars club, with a couple more hanging just outside there. We've got 34 identified as "Active" by TheJets script.

Yeah, it's not like you're due to be passed tomorrow. But given your sizable lead and production, I'm still quite impressed . Also, I'm aware and watching with great delight as you're swinging a mighty axe over in other projects while still dumping in impressive fashion here.

OK, the website stats update process should be working again. I had to put in a temporary fix due to some technical issues with transferring dates from my local machine to my data import service, but those are fixed now. At this point, the site is feature complete until I start migrating it to the ASP.NET 2.0. At that point, I'll introduce the milestone tracking and user-gauntlet bits that I started designing eons ago but never finished. That won't likely be for another few months, but it'll get there eventually. I'm also toying with some sort of "project aggregate" stats which track your total contribution to the team, regardless of project. The gauntlet stuff will probably require that interested users sign up with the site to maintain the gauntlet information and track status. Depending on whether or not my provider supports it, I'd also like to get some WCF [.NET 3.0] web services setup that could be queried to download the raw data for users/gauntlets/etc so people could play with the data on their local machines, this would likely tie in with the user login system so I could control who has access to those features if my bandwidth starts to get out of control.

It was a good week to borg...I had 14 computers and started with 2000 OGR In-blocks. By the middle of the 4th day, I had 1998 Out-blocks and 86,508 stats units, plus a hundred or so RC5 Randoms. (No idea where those 2 missing ones went)I had lots of big (100+ stats-unit) blocks, and a few single-digit ones. I might try to crunch some numbers on those just for grins.The tap will stay at 5K for now...Urugami

That's good news and good work, we're going to need that horsepower if we're going to pass and stay ahead of Team Warped. We've been on their radar for nearly a year now, I don't think they're going to roll over simply because we closed to within 1.5 Million.

Speaking of teams which roll over, who remembers passing slashdot? That was early September 2006, or a little more than 4 months ago. We've now buried them by over 50,000,000.

From the "Dewey Defeats Truman" department, bayanne looks like he'll be the next person to hit 10,000,000. Team Hidyman has made a tremendous effort, cutting the lead to ~40,000, and winning nearly every day for the past 30 days, but time appears to have run out. Interesting sidenote, these two are next to each other in the overall stats, standing at 199 and 200.

Originally posted by CanSpice:I borged four computers over the weekend. They'll continue to be weekend warriors as they get used during the week. Scored an extra 7-8000/day from them.

Actually... I've borged these machines to be nighttime warriors. Thank you to the dnetc people for allowing their client to be paused when a flag file appears. A simple cron job later, and presto, nighttime warriors!

Originally posted by CanSpice:Actually... I've borged these machines to be nighttime warriors. Thank you to the dnetc people for allowing their client to be paused when a flag file appears. A simple cron job later, and presto, nighttime warriors!

Indeed!! All hail dnetc, the bestest DC client ever! If any other DC project ever comes up with a client as flexible and easy to use as this is, I'd be all over it. No-net, no-problem. WUs by e-mail. Don't want to run a proxy? No problem, fetch from an alternate buffer store. Pause on a flag file or presence of an application. The only way I'm able to sieve is by using cron jobs and shell scripts to emulate what's already built-in to dnetc. There are only two features I'd like to see added:

Built-in clock-based scheduling

Not renaming the process to dnetc regardless of the executable name

BTW, we'll be a bit closer to Team Warped after the stats update tonight. And I'm saving up a little RC5 present for Mr.J. and ACCS.

I'm less than 120k behind the #99 person and he/she has less than 5k/day production, so I should be safe to stay in the top 100 by the time Coaster passes me.

BTW I have the opportunity to get my hands on a Mac Pro-- the key is, the client installation can only run during certain hours of the day (e.g. midnight to 6am) when the user isn't there. Is there any way to configure the client to startup automatically at hour x and then shut down at hour y every day?

Alternatively a screensaver multiplexor would be fine, but while that's standard in the Windows client, I couldn't figure out how to run it in the OS X client?

Just in case you're not aware, I'd like to see you on the team. Regardless, congrats on your top 100 milestone and the 20,000,000 mark.

Going Amiga hunting will be difficult. We are steadily gaining, but they have a large lead. And we're not cutting into them like Anandtech. It's certainly not impossible though.

A few items of note. OGR Phase 2 recently crossed the 40% mark. This time last year we were around 15% complete. OGR Phase 2 started in May 2004 (in parallel with OGR 24 Phase 2 which ended Nov 2004). I believe we had recently taken 9th, and were hoping to close the large gap to Slashdo. Also, around this time last year we were joined by Coaster, hitting 10k/day and promising to add a "few more boxes". I think he made good on the promise.

WOW!! Holy crap, Coaster had 431K Gnodes yesterday, at this rate I'll jump to #99 tomorrow, then tomorrow or the next day, Coaster will bump me back down to #100 as he hits #99... WOW. I wish I had that kind of keyrate!!

I am gonna lobby the management to allow me to run dnetc on the idle QA servers when no one is using them, which should add a bunch of out-of-production caliber servers. A bunch of old dual chip xeons.

It seems there was a traffic jam at 100 so I just jumped on past to 96. I never thought I'd see the top 100. Getting to the top 50 might take a little while since it's about another 10 million to get there.

Originally posted by continuum:BTW I have the opportunity to get my hands on a Mac Pro-- the key is, the client installation can only run during certain hours of the day (e.g. midnight to 6am) when the user isn't there. Is there any way to configure the client to startup automatically at hour x and then shut down at hour y every day?

Hey magicfan, good to see you around! Congrats on your top spot for the day.

Daehlie - good luck getting those idle QA servers added. I have a feeling those Xeons will do quite well.

Looks like we have another very solid producer in the 5k - 10k range. Welcome aboard ash!

A (slow forum) belated congrats to Hidyman for his 10 Meeellion point milestone, and also for passing bayanne. Dang, apparently I missed nick.goodman passing the 1,000,000 mark as well. At this point, I probably need to turn in my milestone watcher card.